The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time [Paperback]

Barry N. Malzberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 18, 2003

Fourteen classic time travel stories, selected by award-winning author Barry N. Malzberg. Fourteen classic time travel stories, selected by award-winning author Barry N. Malzberg. The book features 'The Battle of Long Island' by Nancy Kress, 'The Man Who Came Early' by Poul Anderson, 'A Little Something for Us Tempunauts' by Philip K. Dick, '3 RMS GD VIEW' by Karen Haber, 'Hawksbill Station' by Robert Silverberg and 'Time-Tripping' by Jack M. Dann

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About the Author

Barry N. Malzberg is the author of more than 30 SF novels and more than 250 short stories, and was the winner of the first John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the Year's Best Science Fiction.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: I Books (February 18, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743458141
• ISBN-13: 978-0743458146
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,224,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My novel The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel. I've since published Borrowed Tides (2001),The Consciousness Plague (2002), and The Pixel Eye (2003). The Plot To Save Socrates published in 2006 - Entertainment Weekly called it "challenging fun". My science fiction and mystery short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. Nine nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009) have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and eight other languages. I appear from time to time on "The O'Reilly Factor," "The CBS Evening News," "Nightline," "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and other TV and radio programs - I like talking just as much as writing. I'm also a songwriter, and have been in several bands over the years - one had two records out on Atlantic Records in 1960s. My 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme (on HappySad Records) was re-issued on CD by Beatball/Big Pink Records in 2009, and on re-pressed vinyl by Whiplash/Sound of Salvation Records in 2010. I was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009. And last but not least: I'm Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A misleading title, June 27, 2003

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E. N Ritchie (Christchurch New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time (Paperback)

Only a third of these stories are worthy to be in a collection of the best of all time travel stories, many of the others being only competent re-tellings of other authors original ideas.

Although I liked many of the stories I was disappointed that it wasn't a collection of all top notch original time travel stories as it's title advertises, and I was especially irritated by reading an introduction to one story that referred to Robert Heinlein's "By his bootstraps" - which isn't in this anthology claiming to collect the best time travel stories!

As a whole it's a worthwhile book, though don't buy it for the comic version of "A sound of thunder". The comic is printed on good quality paper in full colour process - but as a few small pages printed in paperback format it's not a good way to see Richard Corbens art.

But it is NOT a collection of The Best. More a collection of "Some of the Best Time Travel stories, and some other ones".

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I persisted to the bitter end!, August 21, 2003

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B. A FRIEDMAN "bruce5808" (Port Saint Lucie, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time (Paperback)

I found the premises of most of the stories intriguing. The stories were very well written. I particularly liked "Hawksbill Station." However, I found that most of the stories, including the latter, had unsatisfying endings. This collection did not live up to its title.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT the best time travel stories of all time...., May 9, 2011

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Larry R (Cape Cod, MA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time (Mass Market Paperback)

Not by a long-shot. I'm something of a fan of the genre, and I think that most of the stories in this collection are mediocre, at best. And there's so much to choose from in this realm - I'm not sure what the editor was thinking. For starters, consider Heinlein's short story _By His Bootstraps_, or his novel _The Door Into Summer_. For lighter-hearted, more emotional fare, try any of Finney's time travel stories, several of which are the collection _About Time_. And if you want a real roller-coaster of a story, try John Varley's _Millennium_ which, in addition to being the best (IMHO) time travel novel ever written, has the rather unusual trait of having the name of each chapter borrowed from a classic science fiction time travel short story. So the book, in addition to being a great romp through time, is also a pretty good bibliography of the genre. A much better place to start than this disappointing collection.

CAUTION: Do NOT, under any circumstances, view the *movie* of Millennium. How someone could ruin that good a book boggles the mind. Those responsible for that screenplay should be ashamed of themselves.